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What's the connection between thread and film?
Do these spools of thread bring anything to mind?
Film reels maybe?

These little gems I found on the internet are like bits of handicrafted embroidery that you can only discover in the best kept of households..
They all have English subtitles when necessary, and are always short and sweet..

Every Wednesday a new short film , available to everyone of you online during the whole week.

A short movie for a long week.
Enjoy..












20.9.08

Right Place (Kosai Sekine)




Right Place
5'17''
directed by Kosai Sekine (see website)
Japan , 2005

- Young Directors Award 2006 Cannes/Best short film
- New York Festivals/Film and Video - Gold World Medal
- New York City Short Film Festival/Best Foreign Film Award
- Raindance Film Festival/DIESEL Film of the Festival Award
- NO SPOT Short Film Festival/Finalist
- ResFest/World Tour Selection
- onedotzero/World Tour Selection
- AdFest/New Directors Remarkable








23 comments:

anepidoti said...

Όποιος έχει ανακαλύψει την σωστή θέση να...σηκώσει το χέρι του!!!!
ΠΟΛΥ μου άρεσε και σε πολλές αναγνώσεις, θάλεγα.
Η ΣΩΣΤΗ επιλογή για την σωστή θέση.

Γαβριηλ / Gabriel said...

@anepidoti
thank you for your first comment! I would like to translate it in English (so that everyone can get it)

Whoever has discovered the Right Place may they raise their hand!!!
I liked it VERY much and through many interpretations.
the RIGHT choice for the right place.

Anonymous said...

Excellent! I had a French professor exactly like that in high school!

Anonymous said...

Thanx for posting this, I really like it... it reminds me of myself sometimes, especially walking on the white line :)

Good start Gabriel, and waiting to see more coming...

Cheers

Γαβριηλ / Gabriel said...

@niko
glad you enjoyed it

@moos
it reminded of me myself aswell! haha
ah! and something else i'd like to share.
Kosai Sekine himself is on ...Facebook due to this event! I emailed him and told him I was going to upload the film and now he's in. You can add him. I posted his profile on my profile. funny he?

Anonymous said...

Ωραίο το φιλμάκι.....πάντως, ένα είδος ψυχαναγκασμού το έχουμε όλοι μέσα μας..το αισιόδοξο είναι ότι μπορεί να τύχει να βρεθούμε στο τέλος στο σωστό μέρος....

Γαβριηλ / Gabriel said...

@eva s.
thanks eva s.

"Good film... anyhow we all have more or less this kind of self-forcing. the optimistic side is that we may somehow find ourselves at the right place...

Unknown said...

Poli kalo, xaderfouli! Ki emena mou thimise ton eafto mou se polles faseis... Nomizo oti arketoi apo emas to ehoume afto to obsessive-comulsive mesa mas... Opos kai oloi mas prospathoume na vroume ti thesi mas se afton ton kosmo... Thanks gia tin epilogi, perimeno enagonios tin epomeni!

Γαβριηλ / Gabriel said...

@natalie
well, dear cousin, i know your english is better than mine for sure. then why should i be the one to translate your comment? he?
love ya'..

"That was great little cousin! It did remind me of myself alot.. I think that most of us have this "obsessive-compulsive thing of ours"... And all of us are trying to find our place in this world... Thank you for this choice, I;m waiting for your next one".

Anonymous said...

I just saw the film... The 1rst thing that reached my mind was "Alles in ordnung"... and I haven't practice that language for 8-9 years!
Yet, what I get from this film is that no matter what the world think of us (and what we are doing, of course) the point is what we think of ourselves. If one stongly believes that he has a "right place" to find, he will... unless he believe that he is already at this place, making the best he can.
Generally, I think there 2 ways to see the world.. through my eyes and through everyone's else... It's my choice..

Hmmm, I said a lot... nice thing if a movie provokes such thoughts!! Thanks for giving me this opportunity!

Nada R. said...

an erxotan spiti mou tha trelonotan.... eimai to akros antitheto! xaxa polli gelio!

Γαβριηλ / Gabriel said...

@nada r.
hehe..
I translate:
"if he would come over my place , he would have gone nuts".

Clean up baby! it's Sunday..

Anonymous said...

I just saw it...It reminded me of Andrian Monk, the TV character!

Anonymous said...

Thanx!!!
It's always nice to know people through making films...
great fun : )

Γαβριηλ / Gabriel said...

@kosai sekine
Thanks Kosai. Enjoy.

Unknown said...

Dear cousin, don't be so mean! Forgot that we should be writing in English on this blog... Promise to never do it again, really!
Hugs from Athens
Nat.

Anonymous said...

όλα τα λεφτά οι τίτλοι του "Right Place".Εμπνευσμένο...........

Γαβριηλ / Gabriel said...

@rania r.
wrote :
loved the subs on the "Right Place".. Very inspiring..

i totally agree :-)

Στάθης Χαϊκάλης said...

πολυ καλή επιλογή...

Γαβριηλ / Gabriel said...

@stathis
"very good choice'

thank you stathis!

Anonymous said...

saw the movie, interesting!

Anonymous said...

Το ξαναείδα και νομίζω το καλύτερο στοιχείο της ταινίας, πέρα από σενάριο και σκηνοθεσία, είναι το φοβερό της timing. Συγχαρητήρια στον μοντέρ!

Anonymous said...

Interesting! this kind of art has merged out from the lack of time that have people nowdays. So, I´m not amased that a Japanese can do something good in this aspect! Haikou in vision!